Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sula

gannets and boobies

WoRMS 137055ITIS 174697key itis:174697

2026-08-05: worms_id 137055 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Jon Hill · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sula nebouxii

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

The black-and-white photographs were taken as part of the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program. They depict birds, flocks, eggs, and landscapes. There are no captions on the reverse of the photogra — Photo · National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program · Public domain · commons

A booby is a seabird in the genus Sula, part of the family Sulidae. Boobies are closely related to the gannets (Morus), which were formerly included in Sula.W CalCOFI holds 49 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1997 and 2022, across 4 taxa under it.R

49
observations: 49
records: 1997–2022
years: 1
datasets: 4
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 4 taxa

sp Sula leucogaster Brown Booby36
sp Sula granti Nazca Booby8
sp Sula dactylatra Masked Booby3
sp Sula sula Red-Footed Booby2

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174697")

Sula

Observed in

Under it · 4 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.